Smoking

[Stevens]

I really wouldnt know, but i do always rub some garlic bass attractant on my hands before i start fishing. i have no idea if it helps, but it sure couldnt hurt

[slowride]

I really wouldnt know, but i do always rub some garlic bass attractant on my hands before i start fishing. i have no idea if it helps, but it sure couldnt hurt

Wow garlic on your hands?? Your into it.

[Stevens]

Wow garlic on your hands?? Your into it.

haha a little bit. im always tryin to get an edge i guess, usually doesnt help tho

[MarkW]

I used to smoke----especially while fishing. I have quit smoking the last few years and I catch less fish now then I ever did----LOL!!!!! Although, I know I am healthier then I used to be! I just wish I could catch more fish and not have to smoke to do it.

[jcclark]

I catch less fish now then I ever did----LOL!!!!! .

I think that's true for most of us, even the non-smokers.
It's been slower the last few years.
My 86 yr old dad still talks about the "good ol days"

[DJD]

Do you guys really think that Bass are that smart? I personally think they eat first ask questions later.
Heck, look at what they eat already. Metal, tin, lead, plastic, rubber, paint or whatever else they make baits out of. Oh, and now they have Coffee scented baits. We have all heard of WD-40 being sprayed on baits and what about suntan lotion/sunscreen? Anyone use that while fishing? Are we to believe that now they don't like Nicotine? LOL! I don't think so. JMO

BTW, back in the good ole' days I wonder how many baits were made that were not finished with some sort of paint? I wonder if the fish liked Cedar as opposed to Poplar or Pine???

[smuckey41]

Do you guys really think that Bass are that smart? I personally think they eat first ask questions later.
Heck, look at what they eat already. Metal, tin, lead, plastic, rubber, paint or whatever else they make baits out of. Oh, and now they have Coffee scented baits. We have all heard of WD-40 being sprayed on baits and what about suntan lotion/sunscreen? Anyone use that while fishing? Are we to believe that now they don't like Nicotine? LOL! I don't think so. JMO

BTW, back in the good ole' days I wonder how many baits were made that were not finished with some sort of paint? I wonder if the fish liked Cedar as opposed to Poplar or Pine???

i wonder if the lead paint they painted them with botherd them to???????

[smuckey41]

has any one seen the cheech & chong movie cant remember the name where he is by a pond smoking and the fish comes out of the water and ask for a hit. that tells you there they dont care because everything in the movies are reel. like some one else said, they have coffe baits and if you smoke you know that coffe and cigs go together. i wonder if you can catch a bunch of catfish on cat nip.

[jcclark]

Are we to believe that now they don't like Nicotine?

I guarantee you they don't like it, just put some tobacco in an aquarium
and watch. Fish won't touch it, in fact they'll avoid it and get as far
away as they can.

Try chewing tobacco sometime (if you never had)
and see how you feel.

Fish aren't as stupid as you think, a bass may hit just about anything, but they also
spit it out if they don't like it. every fisherman has experienced that.
they definetly don't swallow everything.
That prooves they taste and smell, and once they hit it and spit it out
it's really hard to get them to hit the same one again.
That's why bait selection is important, prooving they do choose.

[aceoky]

I guarantee you they don't like it, just put some tobacco in an aquarium
and watch. Fish won't touch it, in fact they'll avoid it and get as far
away as they can.

Try chewing tobacco sometime (if you never had)
and see how you feel.

What does that have to do with the "fisherman" (not the fish) smoking?

[DJD]

I guarantee you they don't like it, just put some tobacco in an aquarium
and watch. Fish won't touch it, in fact they'll avoid it and get as far
away as they can.

Try chewing tobacco sometime (if you never had)
and see how you feel.

Fish aren't as stupid as you think, a bass may hit just about anything, but they also
spit it out if they don't like it. every fisherman has experienced that.
they definetly don't swallow everything.
That prooves they taste and smell, and once they hit it and spit it out
it's really hard to get them to hit the same one again.
That's why bait selection is important, prooving they do choose.

I'll give you that, a concentration of any substance would or could be too much for a Bass. I'm a believer in scents and dyes but have found about a 50-50 proven rate of when it helps or hurts. I only started the scents because I wanted my baits to be slippery when flippin' grass.

The dyes came in because a well placed color looks great on soft plastics (to me).
I don't see smoking as a problem to catching fish since it really is such a low dose of scent transfered to the bait if any. Especially a soft plastic bait that already smells of plastic or scent and or bottom muck and or weeds.